YOU Season 3 Ending Explained | Full Series Bre...

YOU Season 3 Ending Explained | Full Series Breakdown, Review And Season 4 Predictions

You season 3 ending explained series review

Welcome to the Heavy Spoilers show I’m your host Paul aka not your average Joe and in this video we’re doing a big breakdown of you.

Not you, you’re not having a breakdown.

But we will be going through the third season’s plot, twists, ending and also giving our full review of the season.

Full Spoilers ahead so if you haven’t had a chance to check it out and don’t wanna be in the Joe, Will you head off right now. If you Wolf the breakdown then please drop a thumbs up and don’t forget to subscribe for videos like this each and every day.

With that out the way, thanks for clicking this, now let’s get into our You Season 3 Breakdown.

Now I feel like we have to talk about the plot of Season 2 and 3 before we dive into the ending as there are important points that definitely have to be considered as being influential to how things wrap up. If you wanna skip ahead timecodes will be linked below but if you do, I’ll never forgive YOU…yes you.

Now Season 2 followed Joe or rather Will as he stalked Love played by Victoria Pedretti. Though she seemed really sweet and innocent and the kind of person you’d never suspect could be the bent neck lady, there was a darker side to her.

Love was just as obsessed with Joe as Joe was with her and she ended up killing Candice and Delilah because they were obstacles in the way for her to get to him.

Love wanted a perfect family more than anything and it seemed like she ended up getting it in the end as the pair settled down in the suburbs.

It was very much a Fresh Tart for them both and it also offered her the opportunity to move on from the death of her brother who won’t make it to Forty.

Pregnant with her own potential psychopath it seemed like somewhat of a happy ending but Joe ended up going back to his old ways once he spotted his next YOU through the fence at his home.

Not you.

Love kills Natalie

Now that pretty much takes us into Season 3 and though Joe sparks up somewhat of a romance with the neighbour Natalie it’s very short-lived after Love kills her.

For the last two years, I’d been theorising that there’d be a season of stalking in which Love would eventually uncover it all but by the end of Episode 1, Natalie and it goes down worse than when you watch Season 2 again and Chris D’elia comes on screen.

Yikes.

Thus starts a brutal game of the couple attempting to cover up the crime, pin it on everyone they can and also deal with each other’s psychotic personalities. There’s always been a dark sense of humour to YOU and early on I found it hilarious how Joe was sure he was gonna have a daughter and then a son popped out instead. Joe isn’t exactly the kind of man that you want your kids to be like and the sensual psychopath wrestles with how he wants to raise his son. He of course came to the suburbs wanting to paint himself out as the perfect person and this series as a whole very much carries with it the idea that everyone has a shadow self.

Much in the same way that Love revealed hers in the second season we see as almost all of the characters have a darker side to them that they hide from the world. Whether it’s Love and Joe being serial killers, Dottie’s drinking, Gil being the kinda guy that tells you to do your own research, the mystery surrounding Mathew, or Sherry’s proposition to Joe and Love about opening their marriage, everyone is presenting something to the world whilst hiding the truth of what’s really going on.

No more is this shown in Marianne and her ex, the latter of whom is a public figure who presents a positive image to the world but really he’s a high functioning drug addict that abuses her. Marianne is played by Tati Gabrielle who you might recognise from Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina.

Much like Joe, she came up through the foster system and the two find common ground not only in their love of books but also because they want their children to be better people than they are. They also have toxic partners and it’s not too long before Joe is completely obsessed with her. Love has her own Love interests two and she ends up having a will they/won’t they relationship with their neighbour’s teenage son Theo.

In all honesty, I thought this plotline kinda pulled the season down a bit and I probably would’ve preferred it had Love tried to keep up the image of being the perfect housewife whilst Joe went slowly off the deep end and turned back to the dark side. I understand that they need some balance in the season but personally, I thought the Theo bits were a weird inclusion.

I feel like the show is very much a comment on how relationships work and though things are taken to the extreme, there are a lot of metaphors in the series that you can apply to a standard relationship.

Much like Joe we all kind of get swept off our feet when we meet someone new that we like and eventually we become closer and closer. However, the world can be a tempting place and the show very much tackles the idea of whether the grass is greener on the other side. It never actually is and though Joe and Love become somewhat bored with one another, they’re very much a team that are indeed soulmates due to their personalities being identical.

When you meet someone else it can feel new and exciting but eventually, those feelings will fade and you’ll be back to where you were, feeling bored and isolated. Thus it’s better to focus on what you have and make it into something special and I think the show very much hammers home the idea about growing your own grass to make it as green as can be.

Feel like I’m giving a marriage counselling video myself here but it’s nice that the show tackles these themes and wraps them in a thriller.

Now whilst most couples have skeletons in the closet, these have literal ones and slowly their masks start to slip and people’s true feelings come to the surface. Dottie at one point accuses Love of murdering her last husband James and this was a fan theory that was floating around when Season 2 was released.

We’ll talk about whether it ties into the end later on or not but it’s important to bear in mind.

Now after Sherry’s proposition Love starts to wonder whether they should try polygamy. Whilst this is initially put in place to bring Love and Joe together, it allows the latter to put his plan in place to be with Marianne.

In the series, it’s said that his type is pretty much a sheep that’s attracted to wolves and she becomes somewhat the person that he must save and fix much like Beck and Love. This was of course mirrored in his mother who was stuck with someone abusive which led Joe going into the foster system after his violent streak was born.

This idea of an abusive husband/partner is of course reflected in Marianne who pretty much has her future ruined when her ex Ryan carries out revenge porn. He sends her nudes to everyone in her contacts list and the way that abuse is now carried out has of course evolved with technology.

It’s now possible to ruin someone when they’re not even with you and Marianne becomes a motherly figure that he must once more save. Throughout his life there have been things like his Mother, the nurse at his foster home and now Marianne who all fit this archetype, convincing him that the latter is his true soulmate.

Joe’s darker side starts to get brought to the forefront once Homeland…sorry Mathew’s operation unearths him losing his temper and punching a wall. Though Gil was framed for the murder of Natalie, Matthew just doesn’t buy it and he becomes somewhat a stalker too as he hacks all of the security cameras in the city to spy on people. His son Theo also becomes obsessed with looking over the evidence they’ve collected and it leads to a shocking revelation that we’ll talk about later on.

Now I love this idea of everyone kind of watching everyone and it of course leads to secrets being exposed.

During their polygamous hook up with the Conrads, Love has an outburst that reveals to them she killed Natalie and we kinda head into the You formula where people are trapped inside a cage that knows the secret.

Where things change though is now Love is solely in charge of looking after the pair and Joe goes after Ryan to end Marianne’s misery.

It leads to the latter part of the season being much better than the middle part and the walls start to close in when Theo unearths the secret in the basement. No more Stifler’s mom fantasies for this kid and Love ends up smacking him over the head which leads to him being left on deaths door.

He confesses to Joe about his and Love’s relationship and she overhears the story behind Ryan’s death and puts two and two together.

The season kinda comes to its logical conclusion with somewhat of a Love vs Joe finale that very much decides their futures.

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Joe Kills Love

Now whilst the couple have pretty much shared their murderous streaks and infidelity, here we see the major difference between the two.

Theo told Love that the pair should run away together and she turned him down whereas Joe clearly wanted to leave with Marianne. It leads to a last supper between the two where Joe reveals that he knows about James and Love confirms the fan theory that she killed him.

Turns out that she injected a paralytic drug into him but the dose was far too high. She of course wanted to control him and it’s revealed that she actually drugged Joe too. Through the season Love had spent a lot of time in the garden and she managed to grow it for herself meaning there’d be no paper trail.

Now you might have questions over how she managed to do it and it’s very quick in the scene. Your first thought might be that it’s the chicken but Love also eats it too so that rules it out. Love says it’s absorbed through the skin and the only thing that Joe interacts with that Love doesn’t is the knife. Now though she does cut the chicken with it we can see that she’s wearing a glove when this happens so it wouldn’t rub off onto her.

Joe grabbing the knife very much seals his fate and she clearly positioned this in front of him during the meal as bait.

After Love leaves, Matthew comes across Joe and discovers the location of his son and Marianne arrives which is when Love reveals the big facade to her including the death of Ryan. She tells her to leave whilst she still can and inspired by her being a single mother Love decides to kill Joe which is when we get a big twist. It turns out Joe was well aware of Love’s plans and using elements of Cary’s cocktail he injected it as a counteraction.

Pretty funny as these are two people who normally can’t think more than five seconds ahead when it comes to a murder but here they are playing fourth-dimensional chess.

Now, this once more shows the difference between the characters as Joe measured out a lethal does whereas Love didn’t because she wanted to try and make things work to some extent.

Love’s final words are that they’re perfect for each other but bad for Henry and that he will find out what his father is.

Realising that he has to protect his son from himself, Joe very much follows in his mother’s and the nurses footsteps and puts the child on a path where they won’t have an abusive influence in their life.

Joe cuts his toe-off puts it in a pie and stages things to look like Love killed him before ending her own life. Matthew and Theo will somewhat corroborate this and she becomes more famous than Beck.

Madre Linda returns to somewhat the way it was before, Theo starts to heal and Matthew goes back to focusing on his son with the mystery now somewhat solved. Henry ends up growing up without a toxic influence unlike the baby Toxi and Shery and Cary go on to develop a radical couples therapy technique after escaping the cage. This is because they find the one left inside that Joe and Love put some in place in case they ever got trapped there and it’s a nice call back to the setup from before.

Turns out that Marianne left the city too and much like Joe she managed to escape marriage. We catch him going under the name Nick in Paris which may be a reference to Dr Nicky who he of course framed in the first season. Paris is of course the city of Love, Marianne is a French name and it’s very much a new beginning. I actually believe that the character will continue on his quest to find Marianne as we see someone enter the cafe in Paris that looks a lot like her. Whereas every season so far has ended with Joe being besotted over a woman, here things are different as he doesn’t become obsessed over this new figure and he travels out into Paris on his own.

This is very symbolic as Joe is now back by himself again in a new city after successfully evading his past once more. Whether he catches up to Marianne remains to be seen but personally, I think that he’ll become obsessed with someone new and then he’ll end up crossing paths with her once more.

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Season 4 Predictions

I’d actually love to get somewhat of a time jump at some point and see Joe come face to face with his son which would finally make him realise that he needs to take responsibility.

I kinda feel like next time that they need to do something different as the show is sort of going in circles at this point and I hope it’s not too long until Joe’s past catches up with him.

There’s also potential that he has a half brother floating around out there as his mother is clearly looking after a child. I’m not sure exactly what’s going on in this scene but something could be happening in the future and I’d love to hear your thoughts below.

Even before the release of this series, Netflix announced that the show had been renewed for Season 4 and I will be back next week at some point to talk about more of my predictions for next time.

Now as for my thoughts on the series I think if I had to rank them from best to worst I think the order of release is pretty much the order I’d put them in. Season 1 was a show that I’d never really seen before and it was fascinating watching the mind of a murderer as he hunted and stalked his prey. The inner monologue and narration really brought a lot to the show and it was super tense wondering if Joe would ever get caught. Season 2 was sort of more of the same but a big twist came when we learned the truth about Love and saw that she wasn’t just another Beck.

Now Season 3 very much deals with the themes of normality and how relationships can lose their spark after a while. It hurts to say it but I feel very much the same about the show and though there were a lot of good moments in it, overall I just didn’t find it as gripping as the ones that had come before. For most of it, it very much feels like Joe’s past will never catch up to him and they’re rarely put into a situation where it seems like the characters have almost no way out.

That was what I loved about the first season especially but here it feels like they pretty much had a five star wanted level on GTA and just hid under a bridge for 10 minutes until it went away.

I would’ve loved to have seen the pair planning murders out and stalking their own people and though there is some of that there, it doesn’t fully come across in a way that I think would’ve been really good.

I actually almost feel like Love is getting stalked by Theo as he’s pretty much the only customer she ever has and he sticks around until she lets him in like Venom when he joined the MCU.

Also now that we’re getting less narration from Joe it’s occurred to me that I don’t really know why people like him that much. If you completely remove the characters thoughts from the show he just stands around not really saying anything to anyone yet everyone is falling over to try and be friends with him or to get him in bed. Probably a big nitpick from me but just something I noticed.

Now saying all that, the main issues I have with the series lie in the middle part and I think by the end of the season that everything is pretty much rectified as it’s arguably the highest point in the series so far.

Those last 3 episodes are a killer and though it pretty much sets things back to the status quo, I think that it really hits its stride and becomes an easy binge.

Penn Badgley has absolutely taken on the role and pretty much made it part of his personality.

He’s completely nailing this charming but sadistic stalker and though he’s doing a lot of bad things, you can sympathise with him at points that shows how good of an actor he is.

Victoria Pedretti also does a really good job with what she’s got and she’s slowly becoming one of Netflix’s best actors after this and Haunting Of Hill House.

Overall I still think the series is worth watching, it just takes a while to get going and there is a lot of filler in the middle.

I will of course be back to see what happens next time and though it is somewhat of us being back to square one I did enjoy the outcome of this season.

In the end, You Season 3 is a pretty good ride and it gets an…

8.5/10

Now obviously I’d love to hear your thoughts so make sure you comment below and let me know.

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With that out the way thank you for sitting through the video, I’ve been Paul and I’ll see you next time. Take care, Peace

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